Blog of Note: PONI
The CSIS Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI) has a new blog. It’s surprisingly good though the author is never identified.
January 2009
23 posts
AQ Khan Website
Well, well, well. Look who has a website. Next thing you know, he’ll be blogging.
Taking EURODIF to the Cleaners
What is the difference between natural uranium and dirty laundry? The Laundromat throws the dirty water away while the enricher keeps the depleted uranium. That makes doing the laundry a service while EURODIF keeping the tails makes them a producer…
Wohlstetter Book
You know how people dig throwback jerseys? I was surprised when I saw the cover the Bob Zarate’s edited volume on Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter, Nuclear Heuristics. It’s a throwback cover, directly referencing Roberta Wohlstetter’s classic, Pearl Harbor: Warning and…
Revisiting China’s Early Warhead Designs
I have a new toy: it’s called HyperCFD and it calculates a number of interesting quantities for bodies of rotation that are moving faster than the speed of sound. I bought it because I was interested in the stability of…
10,000 comments and counting
A milestone for the Wonk yesterday: 10,000 comments submitted from readers! The 10,000th comment came from Major Lemon who asked whether Semipalatinsk stills glows in the dark. Something oddly appropriate about that… So hats off to Jeffrey who started this…
Test Ban Verification
If you are like me, you were no doubt very excited about the first-ever CTBTO on-site inspection exercise at Semipalatinsk. (Rebecca Johnson turned in a some wonderful dispatches for the Bulletin, while Oliver Meier had a nice write-uP for Arms…
Yet more on NORK HEU
Since my post last week delving into the question of how big the HEU particle found on something North Korean would have to have been for the US to date it to 3.5 years old, I’ve had a number of…
Tinner Talks
Urs Tinner, AQ Khan associate and suspected CIA informant, gave an interview to SF1, a Swiss television station. According to AP’s Frank Jordans, Tinner admits to working for the US intelligence community, in particular for tipping them on the BBC…
Nuclear Renaissance vs. Financial Crisis
Could the current financial crisis have given us a reprieve from a boom in nuclear power spreading around the world? Not if my recent visit to URENCO is any indication! Many have argued that the so-called “nuclear renaissance,” will bring…